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Ben had us over, me and him and his boy, Benji, to look at the supernova. Ben was always coming up with these things with the telescope. Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings. On his wedding night he made everybody stop dancing and run out to the golf course so he could show us…
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149196
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my love for you/ is like the falling snow
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1491105
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I like it best when I wake up
And the wild rain of dreaming ends.
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149122
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There is a roofer straddling part of our house, pushing shingles off of our roof with the edge of a shovel. …. I've thought seriously, at times, about becoming a nurse. Seeing your mother in a hospital bed, hooked up to a tube, more than one, too…
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1490116
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Jane knew what to do
when she heard murmurs in the ceiling,
knew what to do when she struck out on the moor.
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1490179
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In the next week or two, the red oak/
will loose and lose its leaves
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149061
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HORDES OF MEN desolated, struck down, destroyed, sunken form of skin and skeleton, bare cloth matted to torso, bodycage and hipbone, face and neck darkened, bloating to black, rain the endless dream stuck fast in the stone-dead skull and blood a fine sheen over all,…
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1490129
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I smelled the bleach of burst anemones
the sweet arousal of the Dungeness crabs
the seaweed of sour twigs and feces
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149011
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I dream about the boy in The Neverending Story, the gate of mirrors, and the Nothing, a dark cloud that floats in the sky, takes away everything.
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149032
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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149030
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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149051
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you'd do him more of a favor to kill him, than place upon him the burden of such an abrupt change in travel plans.
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149062
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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149010
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It's saying, "It feels as if you've given me your old, your tired and your poor. I feel much older than the years you've logged."
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149052
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The increasingly furrowed lines on his forehead made her stomach clench.
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149064
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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14901012
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All the things that are his.
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149077
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I remember the first & only time I parachuted it was 1964 my 16th birthday a rite of passage if you will from the old man an aerospace engineer & former WWII B24 bomber pilot I practice-jumped from oil barrels taught how to fall back then when the time came…
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149000
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She can still be normal, says Momma, knowing my sister can’t hear, forgetting I can.
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149055
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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149045
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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14901814
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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149053
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The mother, a pony-tailed beauty, thinks she looks fat in her
new blue-checked pedal pushers and white blouse tied
under her full breasts— in the latest style.
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1489158
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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148920
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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14891710
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politics only add to assault and distract
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148954
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A study found that in bat species noted for female monogamy male bats have small testes and big brains, while in species noted for female promiscuity males have testicles five times as big, but smaller brains.
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148952
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The manicured lawn rolls down either side of the knoll, punctuated with flat granite plaques, the occasional bouquet of cut flowers, a smattering of faded eight-inch American flags.
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"The Chinese don't have no Mardy Grah, bitch."
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In the summer of 1963 I went to Philadelphia to study with a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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